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North Korea crimes on par with Nazis, Khmer Rouge: UN probe

GENEVA - The crimes of North Korea's regime are as chilling as those of the Nazis, South Africa's apartheid regime or Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and must be stopped, the head of a UN inquiry said Monday.


"Contending with the great scourges of Nazism, apartheid, the Khmer Rouge and other affronts required courage by great nations and ordinary human beings alike," Michael Kirby told the UN Human Rights Council.

"It is now your solemn duty to address the scourge of human rights violations and crimes against humanity in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea," he said.

His comments came a month after the investigators released a searing 400-page report documenting a range of gross human rights abuses in the country, including the extermination of people, enslavement and sexual violence.

"The gravity, scale, duration and nature of the unspeakable atrocities committed in the country reveal a totalitarian state that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world," Kirby said.

"The country is a dark abyss where the human rights, the dignity and the humanity of the people are controlled, denied and ultimately annihilated."

AFP

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Its an abomination that the world has done nothing of any real consequence for over 50 years. Both western and eastern governments should hang their heads in shame....

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More off-topic posts have been deleted. Apparently, our caring and compassionate posters have a lot to say about politics in other countries, but very little concern for the North Koreans.

Quite sad, really.

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The article is comparing the regimes in Germany, South Africa and Cambodia. We don't know much about what is happening in North Korea, except that they are surrounded by the US military playing war games on their borders.

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It's not "North Korea" that is committing these crimes. It's specific individuals in that government who are the criminals. So, UN, name these individuals publicly, if you have the balls, list them on a "most disgusting, heinous people alive" website, publish and broadcast...are you afraid they going to sue you?

"North Korea is bad" will not raise an eyebrow, but "butterball with funky haircut tortures people to death daily and then dances a jig" may get more attention...

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North Korea has no economic importance in the world (no natural resources i.e. oil) and is not in a location that benefits any of the greater powers in the world, so nobody gives a shit. What about all the abductions of JApanese and South Korean individuals over the years? Madness.

If North KOrea was in the middle east it would be a different story..........

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North Korea has no economic importance in the world (no natural resources i.e. oil) and is not in a location that benefits any of the greater powers in the world, so nobody gives a shit. What about all the abductions of JApanese and South Korean individuals over the years? Madness.

If North KOrea was in the middle east it would be a different story..........

The truth is, the world really doesn't care about the North Korean people. Comparing the NK regime to the Nazis is a way of getting attention, but it won't get a lot of mileage. The only way NK gets noticed is if they become a real threat to the region or the world. Heck, they're selling nukes to rogue nations and terrorists, trafficking drugs, etc., and still, no one cares. If they invade South Korea, the response will be swift. In a way, that may be the only way to save the NK people.

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Somehow the U.N. forgot to mention Mao's China and Stalin's U.S.S.R.?

It's cheap to whiff up some dead regimes from history while the grandsons of the World's greatest murderers are actually sitting on the U.N. Security Council and coincidentally are N.K. largest trade partners and political supporters.

In real life, North Korea is like the raving lunatic on the street who's annoying but harmless to passers-by (well, beating wife and kids at home, apparently). The really dangerous ones are those silent types that would, in this image, one day shoot up a High School. N.K. is fodder for the press, but on the global political scale, both China and the U.S.A. need Kim and his lunacy for their strategical goals.

He's far, far away from being a Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao or Stalin.

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